On 19 October, 2005, while listening to an Akron, Ohio radio morning
program ("Matt Patrick and Angela In the Morning" on WKDD), Lou and
Nina Rawls heard about a local woman who was about to lose her home
after coping with medical bills for her special needs son left her in
arrears on her mortgage. The couple immediately telephoned the radio
station to donate whatever amount of money it took to bring the woman's
mortgage to "Current" status.
"I began to learn acceptance, direction, understanding and perception,
all elements that had been sadly lacking in my life. I might have lived
long enough to learn all this in the long haul, but I would have been
just another soul taking up time and space before I learned." - on
surviving a 1958 car crash. Rawls was pronounced dead on the way to the
hospital. He was in a coma for five days.
